I've skimmed 3 days worth and am so glad none of us have won a lottery... Insures our forever friendships.
The surrogate hatch for @Jessimom was reasonably successful with 1 Brahma and 6 silkies. We have our theories the Brahma eggs may have gotten bacteria... I'm also pegging wonky humidity dips in the beginning. I tried the "dry" method until about day 14 when I couldn't stand 30 degree variables anymore. Back to what worked last hatch, keeping humidity around 38%...until lockdown then 68-70... Always 100 degrees.
Watch out HAL...@Sally Sunshine I have some "esplaining" to do... There are 90 eggs headed my way
. I am in the process of tracking down extra bator space and employing some of Kathy's (@Jessimom broody hens! Lol
On the home front, the death virus seems to have left the building and the concrete for the "SuperCoop", run and garden began yesterday!!! My Bielefelder chicks are super skiddish and now I'm wondering if they're what I want to keep a trio from... Thoughts?
@MotorcycleChick - I'm so sad I completely missed your keys discovery! Where were they? PS- loved your cold shrinkage comment... Girls rule
Happy Tuesday! Off to do some more teeth scraping!
6 eggs have hatched and 4 pips left time to get ready for work they will all be out when I get home in 12 hours then warm up the brooder ... And get ready for the next batch of eggs to go in
Just curious, my DIS eggs I pulled out of the bator were left a little too close to the edge of the counter and my dog ATE THEM. These were full term, most likely shrink wrapped chicks. She hasn't thrown them up. She ate 5 of them. Does anyone see any health risks for that? This is the pup that ate them....
I think they are fertile, it looks like the blastoderm is just starting to go away and the embryo is growing. But if this is other than chicken perhaps stages of this look quite different because of the TIME it takes for embryo growth?
